We dropped by the Metaphysical Fair in Denver this past weekend. It’s a minor indulgence for us, something we do once a year or less, and if nothing else, it’s usually good for some rather unusual people watching, although we might exclude the somewhat doughy belly dancers at the front door, grinding and finger-snapping away to Booker T’s classic “Green Onions.” But…we digress.
There was an asortment of faux-crystal skullduggery…
Yikes!
…some folks enjoying some weird-device relaxation
Hmm.....
…and lots of booth psychics, practicing that special brand of psychic-counselor speechcraft…some with tarot, some eyes closed, some with funny wooden circles and little dice-like things…..
Commerce on a higher plane.....
We’re not altogether convinced by alot of this – okay, very little of it – but we wanted to browse, drop off a few cards and, specifically, maybe try to find a medium who might be interested in joining a ghost hunt with us.
Odd, though, we found that there is precious little intersection between the world of psychics and readers and New Age healers, and ghosthunting.
We had the chance to talk to a few of them, they were pleased and gracious to talk about ghosts and so forth, but seemed, for all their psychic, higher-lane consciousness, to have little inclination toward actually doing it themselves.
One might think this would be something off a no brainer, seeking evidence of an afterlife and possibly helping an orphaned or lost spirit, but there is something, perhaps, fundamentally bound in the tangible – evidence gathering against an emery board of skepticism – that perhaps doesn’t resonate with those who deal in psychic counseling and mysticism-on-demand. This is on one level a little puzzling – aren’t we all trying to unravel the enigma of mortality? – but perhaps understandable on a nuts and bolts level. A subject we may come back to, especially as we cast a broader net looking for a sensitive to join us on investigations.
We did come across a booth for a paranormal group based in Colorado Springs, and spent a good 20 minutes chatting with them on technique, locations and other ghost-hunting arcana. We were thinking intially we would link them off SBP, but thought better of it after some time. While the girls we talked to were pleasant and friendly, they did seem to spend a lot of time bragging about their encounters with Ghost Hunters and GHI, and regaling us with all their spiffy big-media attention. I dunno – linking them off our humble little site wouldn’t do much for them, they had NO intention of linking us off theirs, and the brush-with-greatness sense I get from them was a little off-putting overall. I wish them luch and hope they all get on TV. I kinda sense that’s what they’re in it this for.
Oh well.
